Question for people who use electronic scripts and call books -- what do you do, type the whole script over, or scan the pages onto your computer?
Anyone out there do this with musicals, or better yet, an opera or balllet score? How do you justify the time that this takes? Or are you lucky enough to have interns who can do it, or an expense account to be able to take it to the copy center and pay $1 per page to have them scan it?
My Peter Pan score was a full 3"-3 ring binder for just the music - I can't imagine what the time would be to scan all that into a computer, esp. since most of the scores are oversized and old and falling apart!
I guess until they come out with an online library of scores and scripts that you can download as word or PDF documents, it will be paper, pencil, and post its for me!
Ballets are constantly remounted and the Bible is the most important documentation -- but if the paper copy is ever lost, there are always clean copies of the scores in the "score drawer" at the studio, 3 copies of the Q sheets (paper, hard drive, and CD), and always a DVD to watch to re-create Qs.